ZenMaid · B2B · software for maid services
Cold email and call customers yourself to land the first 100
~100 customers; stopped when follow-up got unmanageable
Workedoutbound-salespartnerships
What they did
Amar (ex tech sales) cold emailed and cold called maid service owners, plus one partnership, to reach the first ~100 customers. Stopped around 100 customers when lead tracking/follow-up became unmanageable for him alone; did not hire someone to continue outbound. Advises only doing this if you're good on the phone.
What happened
~100 customers
- Stage
- 0-100 customers
“So the first 100 customers were essentially cold email and cold calling, um, combined with, um, with one partnership that we kind of got along the way.”
“we stopped doing that around when essentially it was it became unmanageable to kind of manage like the leads and who we'd followed up with”
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